Issa Rae To Star & Produce New Movie 'Sinkhole' With Jordan Peele

Jordan Peele is one of the best filmmakers working today. And even though he only has two features under his belt as a director, that statement is far from hyperbolic.

William Earl administratorHBO is bringing quarantined celebrities to the small screen with their new original film “Coastal Elites,” and the just-released trailer shows the lighter side of isolation. The film, the latest in a slew of pandemic programming, stars Issa Rae, Bette Midler, Kaitlyn Dever, Dan Levy and Sarah Paulson as several people telling their socially-distanced stories from across the United States.

Also Read: 17 New Summer TV Shows Ranked by Premiere Viewers, From 'Tough as Nails' to 'United We Fall' (Photos)From playwright and screenwriter Paul Rudnick and directed by Jay Roach, the 1-hour, 30-minute social-distancing satire, which “tells contemporary stories of characters breaking down and breaking through as they grapple with politics, culture, and the pandemic,” will debut Saturday, Sept.

We’re on the precipice of a million different shows and films taking the COVID-19 pandemic and turning it into fodder for plot and entertainment. And though that’s to be expected whenever a major world event happens, it’s pretty insane that we’ve seen something like “Coastal Elites” not only be conceived, written, and produced in such a short time, but it will actually get released while the US is still dealing with the pandemic on a day-to-day basis.

As COVID-19 continues to complicate current filming ambitions, Hollywood is also busy mapping out its future production hopes. As part of those plans, nine new features are planning to shoot in California.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticMovie theaters are still shuttered for the most part in what is usually blockbuster season, but some potentially big flicks just got some big bucks to shoot in California, eventually.Netflix’s Russo Brothers-directed The Gray Man, the Jessica Chastain starrer Losing Clementine and an untitled Jordan Peele project set at Universal were among the nine films allocated $50,053,000 collectively in the last round of Golden State tax credits.

Also Read: The Russo Bros to Direct Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans in $200 Million+ Budgeted 'The Gray Man' at Netflix“After announcing two relocating TV series earlier this month, our new tax credit program continues to get off to a great start with today’s list of film projects,” California Film Commission executive director Colleen Bell said in a statement.

With very little in terms of theater performances in Atlanta these days because of the COVID-19 pandemic, actor and director Chad Darnell has taken matters into his own hands for an upcoming project. He will be bowing the new John Cameron Mitchell play, “Forced,” online the weekend of August 14–16.

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Rachael Ray‘s home in upstate New York, where she and husband John Cusimano have been quarantining during the coronavirus pandemic, is no longer the same after a huge fire erupted on Sunday night.

Apple is getting in on the Robert Downey, Jr. business in yet another attempt for the tech company to build its streaming platform with the help of some of the biggest names in Hollywood.

Coastal Elites transformed into a screen adaptation at the start of the pandemic and as the year unfolded.

Issa Rae.

Will Thorne Staff WriterIssa Rae has found her latest project at HBO.The “Insecure” creator and star is set to executive produce a two-part documentary called “Seen & Heard” on the history of Black television from the perspective of those who wrote, produced, created and starred in series of the past and present. “Who Killed Malcolm X?’ helmer Phil Bertelsen is on board to direct the doc which will feature interviews with actors, showrunners, writers, and celebrities sharing their experiences

Issa Rae has officially lined up her next project at HBO. It was announced today that Rae has signed on to executive produce the two-part documentary Seen & Heard for the premium cable network.

Sure, the world is seemingly falling apart, as a global pandemic still continues to wreak havoc all over the planet. And in the US, we’ve decided to also add a bit of civil unrest and a Presidential Election to the mix, just to spice things up.

Universal Pictures, “Insecure” star and creator Issa Rae and Oscar-winner Jordan Peele (whose studio Monkeypaw are facilitating a whole lot of interesting work lately) are teaming up on movie “Sinkhole,” a thought-provoking genre piece that engaging with questions around female perfection and identity, adapted from a short story of the same name.

Dave McNary Film ReporterIssa Rae and Jordan Peele have come on board Universal Pictures’ family drama “Sinkhole,” based on Leyna Krow’s short story about a mysterious sinkhole.The announcement was made Wednesday, a day after Rae received Emmy nominations for comedy series and best actress in a comedy series for the fourth season of HBO’s “Insecure.” “Sinkhole” is being developed as a potential starring vehicle for Rae, who will also produce.The story centers on a young family knowingly moving